Concerns about new build

NeilCr

Bruich76 wrote: »

Does anyone else have any experience of buying a new build and the management company doing anything to stop on street parking?

Not quite but

I am a director of an estate which has a private road into it. We've had to try various measures to stop people parking on bits of this road. The problems are caused because the developer only provided one car parking space per property. We have managed to sort most of it but there is one ongoing issue (parking where a fire engine, bin lorry etc turn into our car park) which is a running sore

I'll tell you this for free. It won't happen overnight. You've still got people moving into your estate and the management company are highly unlikely to get themselves into gear any time soon. And parking is a pretty emotive thing which can be difficult to enforce. We've held off bringing in ticketing because we are trying to avoid conflict

purple12

This might not be helpful but I've bought two new builds (flat in 2005, sold and bought house in 2014) both with parking. In my experience, management companies have been exceptionally uninterested in parking related problems and issues. Fortunately, currently they don't affect us greatly due to the position of our house but others in the same development have been very frustrated by it - so while those are specific instances, I wouldn't count on them 'solving' any problems.

knightstyle

I blame the planners and they will take no responsibility for their actions!
We are at the end of a cul de sac 12 4 bed houses and a block of 12 2 bed flats. Built 2006/7.
Only one parking place for each house and flat, no visitors parking so everyone parks on the pavements as the road is too narrow to park on!
Nightmare!!!!

tberry6686

Don't blame the planners. This is purely down to environmental policies of councils. Around where I am, planning applications for 3 bed or less houses are only allowed 1 parking space to try and force people onto public transport (would be all right if the public transport wasn't really expensive and really infrequent, 1 bus every 2 hrs). more than three bedrooms are allowed 2 spaces.


If an office block is planned then they are allowed 1/3 of the expected staffing level as parking spaces.


anymore parking spaces on the planning applications and they are refused immediately.

Mickygg

This is totally normal of new build estates. My last house was a new build, which was a 3 bed with one parking space. We had 2 cars so yes we parked one on the pavement as had no choice. Everyone else did this so you had half pavement half cars parked. It's not ideal because it's messy, hard to get past, there were accidents reversing.....which was a reason why I moved.
Unless you buy on an older exclusive private road (or just pre 90's squished new build boom) which is wide and houses have long drives you will always have cars parked everywhere. Why would developers leave space for cars when they can build more houses squished together?

Bruich76_2

I guess the saving grace is that its a street full of 4 bedroomed houses and they all have 2 parking spaces. That might help limit it slightly until their kids get older.

JP1978

I must admit, I do sympathise a little with the OP - but only a very little.

If the parking on the road/footpath was through idleness (cant be bothered to turn the steering wheel and park in their drive) then, yes its really annoying and I would get frustrated on other people's selfishness causes inconvenience to others.

However, in this instance - what can they do? They have four cars and only two spaces. We all know that many new build garages are not useable as such, so are they likely to start using their garages once they get rid of the junk - maybe only applicable if some of the cars are weekend cars etc. else they would be constantly swapping cars around.

I think that your bigger problem could be from the two semi's to the left, they only seem to have one space each?

We have just moved into a new(ish) build, ten years old house. When we viewed the house, the vendor looked at me rather strange when I measured both the width of the garage door and the internal width. My car fits in the garage quite easily but even though the drive housed 2 cars, was awkward with the other car parked in the drive. So, we paid £550 and had the monoblock drive widened by about 1.5m - now, we can get a car in/out the garage and one on the drive, or maybe three on the drive and one in the garage (although that would need some shuffling to get it out).Looking at the plans, doesn't look like your opposite neighbours have the land to extend the parking space.

Maybe spend a few months getting to know them well and then if there is no change and you think it's still an issue, have a chat to them to see if there is anything that can be done - assuming that it does genuinely impede you getting out your drive.

But, as said by others, it does tend to be the blight of many new build estates, those that have no footpaths and narrow roads are going to be particularly bad!

Mobeer

The real problem is the number of houses with a garage and two spaces, where these are all in a line (e.g plots 122-132). Families won't want to have 3 cars in a row, as it is just too much hassle to get the 3rd car out of the garage.

Management company or council might get involved with car parking if enough people complain. But they will probably only put yellow lines everywhere - they can't just create new spaces. Plus they will probably want to charge for permits.

On advantage of a new development is that the new owners have spent most of their money on their home, so can't afford lots of cars. Things will probably be fine for a few years; only later do families start to grow up and teenage children get their own cars. That's when the chaos starts.

tim123456789

Mobeer wrote: »

Management company or council might get involved with car parking if enough people complain. .

Though don't hold your breath


where I am we have much of the street marked up with individual spaces, but when they are full people park on the corners, restricting the view of turning traffic, rather than drive down the street to the end block where there is always free spaces.


we have asked the LA if they will send the warden around to ticket such cars for obstruction - not interested


we asked if they could paint yellow lines and then send warden around to fine cars on yellow lines - not interested


we asked if we could just have "unenforced" yellow lines which would "frighten" some people into not parking there, even if there was no enforcement if they did - not interested


we asked if they would paint the lines if we paid for them - not interested

borkid

Bruich76 wrote: »

each house has its own drive.. the one across the road has a double drive for two cars and a double garage.

Ours has a single width drive but deep enough for two cars.

But still there seems to be 2 cars on their drive and 2 on the road immediately opposite what would be our living room. I guess if we get blinds etc then it doesn't really matter... but, for the money! it's a bit poop.

Around here most people don't park in their garage even when the car will fit. The only people who do tend to be older people ie 50+. The younger ones tend to leave their cars wherever they like, some don't even use their drive.

I suspect what you have noticed will happen anywhere unles you live on a busy road or there are parking restrictions in place.